February 21, 2015

I do not want a
legal ban on the reporting of any news, however I am demanding that if
any media outlet wants my attention they must stop giving terrorist
thugs the publicity they crave. I'm talking about media outlets publicly
airing propaganda produced by evil people. Everybody knows that all
media outlets think in terms of ratings and ad sales when they decide
what to report and how to do it. The bottom line in publishing and programming decisions is ratings, not an intellectual analysis of what is the most important of the news of the day.

Major public media outlets could get great ratings by showing porn and
if it was legal they would. Just as they show tragic video of all types
repeatedly if they garner ratings, even long after they've become common
knowledge to the general public.
Showing the PR material
produced by evil people, rather than reporting it in as dry and brief a
manner possible, is its self an evil act and the fact is, it is done for
profit. If any media outlet wants my attention I demand that they
report the news of evil acts by vile criminals in a simple
straightforward way and resist the urge to show the evil promotional
material they produce when they document their crimes. Because, showing
these evil videos is the moral equivalent of showing child pornography,
for ratings, for money.
There can be no doubt that showing
pictures and video of evil people committing crimes encourages them to
do more evil and it does the general public no good to see this vile
crap rather than simply be informed of it in as dry a manner possible.

It
is a FACT that Sadam used chemical weapons on Iraqi revolutionaries and
their families. That was evil, but it turned out that the people he was
killing are far more evil, insane and dangerous than he was. Sadam was
keeping Al Qaeda and ISIS in control and we destroyed Sadam's regime and
let the devil out of the bottle.

Sadam
and Iraq had zero to do with 9-11 and the Cheney administration wiped
him out because Israel and Likud told them too. Evil all over. This is
why the Republican Party is part of the ISIS terror network. Republicans
do the dirty work of Likud and Netanyahu and then also destroy the
better leaders in the region (Iraq and Iran) and turn loose the ISIS
evil. The Republican party is a Death Cult Like ISIS with right wing
Christians who also agree we are in End Times, just like ISIS.

February 17, 2015

ISIS aren't Muslims and Fox News Fans aren't Christians.President Obama was right, evil Christian Crusaders and our evil war on Iraq caused the rise of the evil other side of the coin. Then when the leader of the Christian world (a good Pope) says we shouldn't be bigots towards Islam all the right wing Fox Christians rise up and start talking about killing 'evil Muslims'. http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/16/opinion/bergen-isis-enemies/index.html

February 13, 2015

February 12, 2015

...or Senator, or US Representative? I don't know, but he sure picked a rather 'totally ideal' time to announce his 'retirement' from the Daily Show if he were running for the presidency, or any public office in November 2016.

Mr. Stewart's contract with DS reportedly runs through September 2015. If he stays on the show until then he will keep a free national media outlet to, perhaps, become ever more serious and less flippant about politics...right up until six months before the first presidential primary.

It's been more than obvious for a decade now that Jon Stewart has little in common with comedians who just make fun of politics and much more in common with writers (and politicians) who do political commentary. Most of his 'jokes' don't hinge on a clever twist of wordplay deployed to make a political quote seem absurdly funny, but rather, Mr. Stewart usually makes his audience laugh by simply highlighting some absurd aspect of the 'broken' American political system and then staring dumb-struck at the camera evoking the feeling from the audience that NOBODY is as angry and sickened about political hypocrisy and stupidity as is...Jon Stewart.

He's different from comics like the late Bill Hicks or today's Chris Rock because, while those two and many others, do love highlighting political hypocrisy and do make valid social commentary a part of their schtick, they also love to be just plain embarrassingly silly and even sleazy-anything for a laugh. Stewart gives the impression that he would rather give a lecture on climate control than put the audience in the aisles with bawdy non-sense.

I have thought for many years that it was all but carved in Stone that Jon Stewart would some day seek high elected office, he just cares too much not to. And now I think he's doing it. Probably more likely in congress than the Whitehouse...but I still love this picture.

February 10, 2015

After thousands of years of various sects of society justifying
their hateful acts by pointing to hateful acts committed by those who
they are at odds with, in the past...I'm afraid it will take a nuclear
holocaust for us to realize that the world's reaction to the Jewish
Holocaust was not a healing response. It was like giving in to the
Nazis racist philosophy when the world decided that Jews could not
safely live amongst other races and religions and the decision to
create a state for them, based on race and religion must have made
Hitler smile in his grave. We will not have peace until the United
Nations is given real power as a world government and begins enforcing
the law and legal boundaries in the Holy Lands.

I
do mean re-enforcing the original contract between world powers and the
Palestinians to re-create the nation state of Israel. No matter what
the cost of doing this safely, for all involved, the benefits to the
region and all inhabitants and the world as a whole would be great.

I
would not say this if I didn't think the citizens of Israel would not
benefit equally as the citizens of Palestine. God help me it's true.

The World created Israel and we must defend it and guide it. JE SUIS ISRAELI! Israel is a world nation.

February 9, 2015

Art is medicine for the Psyche. We're all different and need different psycho-therapy/art. So there is no accounting for people's tastes in the arts and the whole concept of 'ranking' artists is ludicrous.

February 7, 2015

February 5, 2015

It happens all the time,
lots of people change their minds.
Sometimes it is fair and it is fine.
Today a lot of people UP there, with Wealth Beyond Compare,
should understand that-
What's Yours is Mine.
We're on this world alone, with nations carved from bone
and it has been a hard and awful climb.
But some day we will see, all nations come to be, who understand that,
What's Yours is Mine.
I'm not a Communist and I'm giving you the gist, I'm a Capitalist and that is fine,
but if You don't make it fair, it will rip your whole Town Bare...
And That's Why I Say-
What's Yours Is Mine.

Love
Love is the ultimate efficiency formula.
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It is really that simple. When we take each others well being into our own, then there are fewer collisions of interest which lead to wasted energy on everyone’s part. These clashes are always sadly counterproductive and stall and stunt our progress and could even destroy us save for some unforeseen intervention.
Until we embrace Love as our core personal and social philosophy then we are forced to greet the birth of every new technological advancement with dread, knowing full well that despite the potential for good it will be used for selfish and hateful purposes as well.
What a shame to take such a chance when salvation is within our grasp if we deal efficiently within this infinite universe.
Love gives us peace and in turn prosperity through efficiency. In an angry world, even the queens and kings are in danger, while in a peaceful world even the poorest can have a good and happy life. The efficiency of love yields far more benefits to the most wealthy or poor than are lost by any individual to generosity.
Our technological achievements to date are like miracles to those who lived centuries before us and yet the one thing which has always been most important to us is still out of reach, even though it is the simplest thing of all and has always been within our grasp...Love.

To be the first AfrAmerican president elected in the USA YOU MUST be the smartest person in the country! It's simple MATH!

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Immigration Reform Storm Brewing

The same Republican congressional House members who led the suicide march to bankrupt America in the budget battle are now foot-dragging and mud slinging to stop the bi-partisan immigration reform bill (already passed by the Senate) from coming to the floor in the House of Representatives. They will fail, they're good at it! Immigration Reform is inevitable, profitable for everyone and by God it's just the right thing to do. For decades business friendly (mostly Republican) Governors in the burgeoning sunbelt have turned a blind eye at the request of their state's business leaders and allowed an influx of millions of much needed workers from Mexico and South America. But now that their party has been commandeered by right-wing social conservatives, led by hate-radio talk show hosts, they want to dial back history and start over. It's not gonna happen! We as a nation, united, need real and good and fair immigration reform, now, this year!Organize here! http://www.fwd.us/

Obama Did Not Change Unemployed Calculation, Pa Bush and Clinton Did!

Interesting that if you add the upwardly revised jobs # from the previous two months to the April total then it equals the 168k that was projected. But the real point to focus on today is the fake story from the far-right which lies about how the unemployment # is calculated. They say Obama changed it, NO, it was changed in 1994!

"THE DEFINITION OF 'UNEMPLOYED' HAS CHANGED"...Rightwingers! Show me one link to one reliable source detailing when and how this happened! You can't. What Neal Boortz etc. are referring to (when they say today's rate would be higher under the old formula) is something that occurred in 1994 under Clinton and was started by the Bush Sr. administration.Here is a link to an article in Harper's by Kevin Phillips proving my point...Quote and Link: "But in 1994, the Bureau of Labor Statistics redefined the workforce to include only that small percentage of the discouraged who had been seeking work for less than a year. The longer-term discouraged—some 4 million U.S. adults—fell out of the main monthly tally. Some now call them the “hidden unemployed.”Harpers-http://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/0082023

A Walk With MLK-My proudest day.

One bright morning when I was a 12 year old boy living in Sandy Springs GA, my mother June announced to my younger brother and sister and me that we weren't going to school that day. She told us to dress nice and get in the car. We only found out as we were leaving the house that we were going to march in Martin Luther King's funeral procession.

It was a short quiet drive. I don't care for crowds and I was worried that this was going to be a long hard sermon to listen to, but I knew we were doing the right thing. We had mostly grown up in the poorer parts of various southern towns and we were used to both colors of people sharing the streets, but this was an amazing feeling to be the only people of one color we saw in such a large crowd. I wasn't surprised at how warm and comfortable it felt. And I realized immediately what a good idea Momma had to come there.

The entire walk and service seem like a beautiful, if melancholy dream. Never had we felt such an outpouring of peace and goodwill through such sadness. All of us have shared our memories over the years, many times. The whole event passed like a song, but midway through my younger brother, only 8, began fidgeting, being so short he was staring at people's stomachs and bored. Then slowly and quietly, without a word, a tall strong man standing behind Steve reached down and picked him up over his head and gently placed him on his shoulders so he could see. Steve was quietly mesmerized and still says it was the most amazing experience he ever had to be lifted up over the crowd and to watch the whole panorama from his private box.

It was a small piece of heaven on earth that the reverend brought to all of us there that day. My mother and sister and brother and I all agree that was all of our proudest day. Not for anything we've done to help with King's cause, but what we did for ourselves by being there. It changed us. It was a religious experience.

When I see pictures of the good doctor and his statue on the mall, he is very real to me. He is still alive, I'm sure of it.

And I wouldn't be at all surprised if he came back one bright morning.

Lower Tax Rates Bring in More Revenue-Not Really...

'It works every time it's been tried' blares the conservative radio host of your choice. But not so fast...here's how that myth breaks down. If an economy is growing at a very fast clip and increasing in size year after year, that is one thing. Under that circumstance (as was the case in 1965 when our upper rate was lowered from 91% to 70%) then it is indeed possible to garner more tax revenue at a lower rate of taxation because you are, in effect, taking a smaller bite of a bigger pie. But this is a temporary result and depends on the economy continuing to expand. And since a prime factor in the continuing growth of any economy is that a nation stay up to date on modernization and maintenance of its infrastructure, that means this formula for increasing revenue by lowering taxes must inevitably be reversed if a nations economy is to stay strong. Nothing is static in economics!

When Will We Learn?

During what years was the USA at our economic peak? The tax rates on the wealthy from 1940-80 were no coincidence. And don't say 'the rich didn't really pay them'. There's no way our economy grew so much and we did so much with such low debt without vastly more revenue. From 1940-80 we paid for WWII, Korean War, Vietnam war, Republican Eisenhower built our Entire entire Interstate Expressways system and we went to the moon-manned 6 times! Kennedy only lowered the upper rate a little, but Reagan decimated it and America has gone into debt and disrepair since then. Sad...When will we learn?http://PatrioticEconomics.blogspot.com/

The Nigger Lover's Dead -JFK

"The Nigger lover's dead..."

Those were the words that informed me of the assassination of president John F. Kennedy fifty years ago. The words weren't spoken by an individual, they were sung by a small makeshift choir gathered around the driver of a school bus in Greenville South Carolina where I lived at the time.

I was eight years old and despite the rampant racism in the south, I didn't hear the 'N' word very often. My white family didn't use it and in the all white segregated school I went to and community I lived in Black folks were almost invisible and therefore not available to be abused by this hate speech.

This small bus load of white elementary school boys had been shuttled from school to the Young Men's Christian Association for pee wee football practice and we were on our way home when I heard the 'song'.

I was sitting near the back of the bus and as it rumbled along I absentmindedly didn't notice that most of the other kids had gathered around the bus driver at the front, in a tight bunch. When the song started I couldn't make out the words, but the dirge-like chanting immediately made me feel as if I had crossed into some otherworldly nightmare and I was listening to the chanting of witches...I thought this to myself just before the words became clear to me..."The Nigger lover's dead...The Nigger lover's dead...The Nigger lover's dead..." over and over again, it went on and on and sent a chill down my spine though I had no idea what they were singing about. Even when we got off the bus (back at school) and another kid my age smiled at me and gleefully repeated the phrase...I still didn't know.

I walked home and when I entered the house and the living room I found my mother and our Black babysitter Mariah in a huddle of sobbing and wailing on the couch. My mother June looked up at me with her tortured red tear-soaked face and just shook her head and put it back down...I walked through the hall to my bedroom and I still wasn't sure what had happened, but I knew someone good had been killed and I remember thinking to myself that we weren't going to be happy anymore for a very long time.

Years passed, other tragedies happened and were grieved, MLK, Bobby Kennedy...and in 1990 I moved to Boston Massachusetts. One day as I walked down Commonwealth Avenue, under the CITGO sign, I passed an elderly AfrAmerican man walking the opposite way on the sidewalk. As I nodded, a car full of young white men drove passed us and shouted "Nigger!" in unison. As I barked "Fuck you!" they retorted "Nigger lover!" and sped away. I looked back at the gentleman and said, "I'm sorry about that." He just smiled a sad smile and said, "That's OK," and kept on walking.

Ironically, that's the only time anyone ever called me that horrid phrase to my face - not far from JFK's birthplace.

I don't think America is worse than other nations in terms of racism. In some ways you can argue that the United States is the only place racially diverse enough to be considered a true test of a society's ability to peacefully integrate different races. Barack Obama being elected president surely doesn't mean the end of racism in America, but in my opinion - and I think that of my mother June, who passed on some years back - I believe that it is the greatest moment in the history of our country.

I don't say this because I know President Obama is our best president, but he is a crown on the throne of America as a progressive nation!

And today, while the pain of that early memory has been dulled by time and some modicum of progress, I am freshly sickened by the latest right wing political posturing in which (cynically and wickedly) they are trying to invoke the name of John F. Kennedy as a conservative, one of their ilk, who would gladly abandon the Democratic Party in favor of Republicans, if he were only alive today.

The man whose name they spat on they now claim as their own because of his iconic popularity and youth appeal. 'JFK' they say 'lowered taxes' and that makes him theirs. Yes Rush Limbaugh, yes George Will, JFK's administration lowered taxes from an upper rate for the wealthy of 91% to 77%, (or roughly double today's rates). There's no reason to believe he would join in with you and the modern, government hating, Republican zealots of today or the revitalized racism of the Tea Party. But there is every reason for you to bow your heads in shame for ever mentioning his name. http://ChipShirley.Com/

God bless

In a nation with fair taxation policies (as we had from 1937 to 1980) even the poorest among us can have a good life 'The American Dream'. In a nation like ours is presently, with low tax rates for the rich, even the most wealthy live in gated communities, a prison of their own creation.http://PatrioticEconomics.blogspot.com/